With Office 365 subscription plans you get the premium Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access (Publisher and Access are available on PC only). You can install Office 365 across multiple devices, including PCs, Macs, Android™ tablets, Android phones, iPad® and iPhone®. In addition, with Office 365 you get services like online storage with OneDrive, Skype minutes for home use and advanced Outlook.com security. When you have an active Office 365 subscription, you always have the most up-to-date version of the Office applications. Learn more about Office 365.

You can check if your device can support your version of Office by viewing the full Office system requirements.

No. Office applications are tailored to work best on each platform and device. The Office applications available for Mac users and the version numbers may be different from those available for PC users.

Your Microsoft account is the combination of an email address and password that you use to sign in to services like Hotmail, OneDrive, Windows Phone, Xbox LIVE and Outlook.com. If you use any of these services, you already have a Microsoft account that you can use, or you can create a new account. Learn more about a Microsoft account. As part of signing up for a trial or purchasing Office, you will be prompted to sign in with a Microsoft account. You must be signed in with this account to install and manage your Office software, or to use some subscription benefits, including OneDrive storage and Skype minutes.

Users can activate 1 subscription for Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal and up to 25 licences for Office Home & Student 2019, Office Home & Business 2019 and Office Professional 2019.

Yes. You can sign up to try Office 365 Home for free for a month on the Office website. (Note that a credit card is required for the free trial.) The trial gives you access to all the features of Office 365 Home. It includes:

1. Create or sign in with an existing Microsoft account. What is a Microsoft account?

If you signed up for the trial via the Office website, visit the Microsoft Account site and turn off auto-renew. With this approach, the trial will automatically expire when your month is finished and your credit card will not be charged.

It depends on how you signed up for the trial:

Not immediately. For example, if you had a trial of Office 365 Personal, you can’t sign up for a trial of Office 365 Home. However, one year after your trial or paid subscription ends, you can sign up for a new trial.

To set up your account and install Office for the first time, visit https://setup.office.com. Learn more about setting up your account. If you have already created your account, visit accounts.microsoft.com. Learn more about installing Office.

After you associate your Product Key with your Microsoft account, you can sign in to accounts.microsoft.com to install and manage Office. But it’s a good idea to keep your Product Key in a secure location as proof of purchase or to help our support agents trace your product.

If you add the same Office 365 subscription to your Microsoft account, you’ll have the same subscription benefits (same number of Office 365 devices you can sign in to, the same amount of Skype minutes and same OneDrive storage) as before. By purchasing another subscription, you're extending the amount of time for that subscription, not increasing the number of Office 365 devices you can sign in to or amount of online storage you get. You can extend the duration of an Office 365 subscription for up to 5 years. Click here to learn more.

Office 365 plans are available in most countries/regions. In countries/regions where Office 365 plans are not available, you can still buy an Office 2019 suite. When buying Office 365, it’s important that you select the country/region in which you will be billed and in which you’ll use the software. Selecting a different country/region may cause problems with subscription setup and renewal.

Microsoft offers simple and cost-effective solutions for multilingual individuals, families and small businesses.

OneDrive is an online storage service that you can use to store documents, notes, photos, music, videos or other types of files. With OneDrive you can access your files from nearly any device and you can share them with others. Sign up for OneDrive.

To access documents stored on OneDrive, sign in to Office with the Microsoft account that you used to set up Office 365. If you have shared your Office 365 Home subscription with other members of your household, they should sign in with their Microsoft account. Learn more about signing in to Office. You can also sign in to OneDrive directly at OneDrive.com.

If you cancel your subscription or if it expires, you can still access and download all your files by signing in to OneDrive directly using the Microsoft account you used to set up Office 365. You do lose the additional storage that comes with your subscription, so you must save your files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage if your OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota.

They lose the additional OneDrive storage, but they can still access and download all files. If their OneDrive account exceeds the free storage quota, they’ll need to save files elsewhere or buy more OneDrive storage.

With Skype minutes you can call friends or family on their mobile phone or landline, whether they have a Skype account or not.

Skype offers a variety of pay-as-you-go and subscription options to supplement Skype minutes. Visit www.skype.com for more details.

You can choose to apply your Skype minutes to a new or existing Skype account. To activate your Skype minutes, visit accounts.microsoft.com and then follow the onscreen instructions to either create a new Skype account or to use an existing one. You will see a confirmation at accounts.microsoft.com when the minutes have been activated.

To install Office 365 or Office as a one-time purchase, visit accounts.microsoft.com on the PC or Mac that you want to install Office on. Sign in with the Microsoft account that you used to purchase, or have already associated, with the subscription or one-time purchase product, and then follow the onscreen instructions to install Office. Learn more about how to install Office.

You’ll need to determine which Office product keys correspond to each PC. Learn more.

Office 365 Home subscriptions can be shared with up to six users on multiple devices such as PCs or Macs, tablets and smartphones.

Learn about which Office versions can work side-by-side on the same device in this article.

The 32-bit version of Office is installed by default.

To uninstall Office, first visit accounts.microsoft.com, and follow the onscreen instructions to deactivate Office. Deactivating Office leaves the Office applications on your PC in read-only mode, which means that you can view documents, but can’t edit or save them, and you can’t create new documents. To remove Office entirely, go to your PC’s Control Panel and uninstall Office. For Mac, iPad and Android tablets, follow the instructions on that device to uninstall an application.

Get the core Office experience for free on your favourite tablets and phones. To find and download apps, visit the following pages: Office for iPad, Office for iPhone, Office for Android tablet and Office for Android phone. For Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps, get premium features with an eligible Office 365 subscription. For information about the premium features for mobile devices that are available with Office 365, visit www.office.com/information.

Office 365 customers with an active subscription always get the newest versions of the Office applications when they are available. When we release a new version of Office, you will be notified that you have the option to update your software to the latest version.

The latest version, Office 2019 for Mac, is now available to Office 365 subscribers as part of your subscription. To install Office 2019 for Mac, go to accounts.microsoft.com and follow the instructions there.

To manage your billing information, renew or cancel Office, install or remove Office from your PCs or Macs, and/or manage Office on other devices at any time, visit accounts.microsoft.com.

If you purchased an auto-renew subscription, your subscription starts when you complete your purchase. Auto-renew subscriptions may be purchased from Office365.com, MicrosoftStore.com, the iTunes® Store and some other retailers.

If you have an active Office 365 Home subscription, you can share it with up to five members of your household. Each household member you share your subscription with can use their PCs, Macs, iPads, Android tablets, Windows tablets, iPhones® or Android phones, get an additional 1 TB of OneDrive storage, and manage their own installs at accounts.microsoft.com.

Your Microsoft account can only have one active subscription. If you activate your Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription before your Office 365 Home subscription expires, the remaining time on your Office 365 Home subscription will be converted to the Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription (whichever you have chosen). However, you will immediately lose the Office 365 Home benefits of sharing Office with 5 other users, so you may choose to wait until your Office 365 Home subscription expires before activating your Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription.

Your Microsoft account can have only one active subscription. If you activate your Office 365 Personal subscription before your Office 365 University subscription expires, the remaining time on your Office 365 University subscription will be converted to Office 365 Personal.

Your Microsoft account can have only one active subscription. You can either convert your Office 365 Home subscription to Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University, or you can wait until your current subscription expires before activating your Office 365 Personal or Office 365 University subscription.

As the expiration date approaches, you will receive notifications in the Office applications and via email, alerting you to the upcoming expiration. If you choose to let your subscription expire, the Office software applications enter read-only mode, which means that you can view or print documents, but you can’t create new documents or edit existing documents.

You will be notified before you’re charged when it’s time to renew an annual subscription. If you are signed up for a monthly subscription, your payment will be automatically debited each month and you won’t be notified in advance. You can change your payment method or cancel your subscription at any time by visiting the Microsoft Account site and signing in with the Microsoft account that you used to buy Office.

For help and how-to content, visit www.office.com/support. For free video-based training, visit www.office.com/training.